0 past simple and past participle of gazump
1 to refuse to sell a house that you own to someone you have agreed to sell it to, and to sell it instead to someone who offers to pay more for it:
They were then gazumped by the local authority, which bought it for £900 more.
How many more people will be gazumped in the coming year or two, before even his modest proposals take effect?
Effectively that motion has been gazumped by people queue-jumping by introducing a writ this morning.
I have great sympathy with those who find themselves gazumped because of such practices.
I agree that if people pay for structural surveys and building society surveys and then find that they are gazumped, such money is wasted.
He can obtain no answer from the building firm about whether his plot will be gazumped.
Is she aware that the national health service may be gazumped by a private bidder?
That is rather like being gazumped in reverse.
